Entries from seikatsu tagged with 'photos'
Tired of Steve Jobs Health "Reports"
Well, ever since Steve Jobs went skinny (again, that is), the global Apple community and both new and old media have been nuts about speculations around his health. During the holidays it was quite funny to see a classic butterfly effect in action when Ross and Robert Scoble were... buying yogurt in Palo Alto. "Confirmed: Steve is healthy!" went from a casual comment of the yogurt counter employee to Chinese tech news in just a matter of hours. Yesterday I...
Kaks tilka vett
Sõber saatis sellise lõbusa fotokomplekti, mõlemad pildid pärit kuskilt eesti meediast: Sandori jutumullid on mõnevõrra fundamentaalsemad....
More on CrushCamp
Discovered that one of the CrushPad winemakers who kindly hosted us at a recent CrushCamp is also a food and wine blogger: VMac + Cheese. She has taken the time to take a bunch of photos from my photoset and put together a storyline around it. Great reading if you're interested to understand the process better, especially as she has added keyword links to explanatory pages at CrushNet's EnoWiki too....
Making wine at Crushpad
On a recent trip to California got a chance to visit Crushpad. They are a high-end winery... where you are the winemaker. Some of my friends invested in them last year and one of them has been pushing a group of us to make a barrel of our own wine together. So we kicked off the process and it has moved along, for some reason without much enthusiasm from my part. Now after being there, including a half-day Crushcamp...
Seedcamp 2008 was fun
Spent a day at London Seedcamp Week's Product and Marketing Day again. Hit quite a jackpot on the mentoring group selection lottery and got to spend time with four out of the total seven winners of this year: Kyko - online multiplayer gaming by the creators of Babuki, with a neat angle of tapping into existing social/IM networks to build their userbase. Stupeflix - French startup generating time-synced video clips out of static images and music. Animoto competitor with...
President's Speech on Innovation
Last week's Baltic Dynamics 2008 conference was opened by an address by the President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves, speaking on Innovation. As the full text did not make it to the president.ee website's speeches section yet, I pinged his office and they kindly provided me a full copy in a few hours. Transparent government in action, love it. As I think this is one of the best condensed summaries of the major issues -- such as investments, education,...
Summer - over and out
It is obviously the back-to-school-and-work season now. First: I'm receiving complaints that this blog has seen just 2 posts in last 2 months... In July nor August nobody cared, including myself. If you were one of those worried about silence - I now know that you have not subscribed to the feed. My Flickr feed you receive as an automagically embedded freebie when subscribing to this blog, has actually had a full trail of mobile snapshots of what has happened...
Apple/Yahoo's Flashback from 11th Century
This is an actual screenshot of an attempt to get a weather report for Tartu, Estonia on my iPhone, using the standard Weather app, powered by Yahoo data. What's the joke? Yes, the city of Tartu used to be called Yuryev at some point. Namely between 1030 and 1061 when Prince of Kiev, Yaroslav I the Wise burnt down the wooden fortification dating back to 7th century and built his own. Just checked, Yahoo! Weather on the web has...
Video Call with Her Majesty
Just finished a video call with Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. She was visiting Skype Tallinn office as part of her state visit to Estonia. I was babysitting at home. One of these physical location misses when Skype really becomes handy. Also, Etta joined the ranks of the babies worldwide who have had their first video call while less than 10 days old....
Notting Hill Breakfast
If you have moved to London for four weeks, your son has fallen sick on the first night, but thankfully, two doctor occurences and five days later he can actually hold some food in, the sun is shining and spring is in the air, and to top it all, it is a Sunday which happens to be the (British) Mother's Day, do no more than head to Tom's Delicatessen for breakfast. And even if you're lucky enough to escape...
Uus IT Kolledzhi hoone
Alles eelmise aasta mais pidasid tähtsad mehed kõnesid ja asetasid nurgakive: Ja selline on pilt vaid pisut üle poole aasta hiljem: Eriti õnnestunud on maja sisearhitektuur ja -planeering. Tasub leida põhjust külla (või õppima) minna. Palju õnne, IT Kolledzh!...
Sushi heaven
This is actually a very very simple restaurant review: Ikeda has the best sushi I've had outside Tokyo. Period. When (shouldn't be "if"!) you go there for a first time, say Omakase!*, sit back and watch the chef's choice of freshest sushi and sashimi magically appear on the red counter pictured above. Apparently Ikeda has been around for 25 years already. And there is a reason why. Footnote: *In Japanese, "Omakase" means "entrust" or "Chef, I'm in your hands"....
Dinner Joys Galore
A free tip for your next social event. Get a group of friends together in a Skype multichat. Set a date for a dinner. Divide courses and entertainment responsibilities and set no further rules. If your friends are anything like mine you will end up with six hours of pure joy featuring: Three types of game sausage (boar, deer & moose) Pickled wild mushrooms Home made bread Thai-style chicken skewers with cucumber-coriander salad Veal carpaccio parmigiano Phaesant leg on...
Happy Birthday, Mutant Disco!
Last night the Von Krahl theater in Tallinn hosted crowds from all over the past ten years to cheer for the tenth birthday of Mutant Disco. As for many other good things in this category, we have to thank again late John Peel. By becoming a fan of Röövel Ööbik and giving them a lot of BBC One airtime in early nineties, he inevitably helped to build a strong network between the Estonian and UK music circles, with the...
Dominican Republic
The virtual radio silence here is excused by a lovely internet-less trip to the Dominican Republic and the busy weeks post-return. I finally managed to sort some photos from there, at least. Cheers to Carlos for thorough briefing ahead on where to go and what to see in his homeland and Rosendo Alvarez III, the Honorary Consul for Estonia there for his kind invitation in the first place....
Which Michelin gave Hakkasan Their Star?
Hakkasan (SkypeFind reviews) has been on my to-go list for a long time. Can't even remember who was the very first to recommend it (and maybe the place was just better a year+ ago?). It is right around the corner from our London office, but for a reason or another I never made it. Now I did and what a complete disappointment it was. GOOD: Those who had 'em, praised the cocktails. Dimsum & duck appetizers were nice. That's...
Nice Welcome Surprise
At some point the Radisson Edwardian hotel I usually stay at in London started leaving me hand-signed welcome notes to the room when I arrive. Nice touch, even if common for regulars at many hotels. Now they've taken it a step further - the note speaks my mother tongue. And quite familiar in tone, I must say. ("Kallis" is usually used in the very friendly context where "darling" if not "sweetheart" is appropriate, as opposed to casual "dear"). Thanks...
Alustuseks tasuta kohvi
Palju diskussioone põhjustanud riiklik Arengufond alustas tänase arutelu-hommikusöögiga esmakordselt laiemat dialoogi Eestis juba tegutsevate riskikapitalistide ja ettevõtjatega. Seltskond soliidne, õhkkond tore ja jutt selgelt nihkunud "kas on vaja?" küsimuselt "kuidas teeme?"-le. Mõned üksikud meeldejäävamad mõttekillud: Baltikumi riskikapitali turu maht on 12m EUR, Soomes 700m EUR. Tõsi, viimasest numbrist enamiku moodustavad management buy-out ja buy-in tehingud, spinoffid suurfirmadest jm. Seed stage & startup osakaal on ehk veerand. (Arengufondi värske Investeeringute juht Markku Mäenpää) Arengufondi on palju kahtlustatud plaanis, et see...
Thermal Portrait Snatched From Museum
Learned at the last minute that The Tech museum across the street from the hotel I'm staying at in San Jose is opened later than I thought. Spurred through just one floor there in 30 minutes and found even that limited glimpse very cool. Cleanrooms for chipmaking, multi-G robots, hands-on 3D rendering stations for a roller-coaster ride that you can then experience in virtual form and so forth. Silicon Valley in a condensed, playful form. Presentation-wise they do one...
Emotional Hours at Wembley
The Estonia-England Euro2008 qualification game at Wembley was quite an experience. For the most part, not for the devastating game but the emotions around it. Roughly 2000 Estonians trying to outshout & -sing 84600 English supporters. Apparently, our Song Festivals are not that unique after all. A few more mobile shots here. Note to self - you actually could bring a decent camera to this stadium, no matter what the back of the ticket warning says. And a trivia...
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